World Literature and Dissent

Katie Muth teaches twentieth and twenty-first century literature at the University of St Andrews. Lorna Burns is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of St Andrews.

• Introduction Lorna Burns and Katie Muth Part 1: Dissent (In Theory) 1. Dissent in the Reign of Ignorance, or Parsing the Epistemology of Empire Djelal Kadir 2. The Problem of Dissent Katie Muth 3. Paying Attention: Philosophy and Literature as Strong Therapy for the Information Age Dominic Smith 4. Rhetoric of Innocence or Literary Dissent? Franco Moretti, World-Systems Theory and The Case of Magical Realism Lorna Burns 5. Khaldunia: The Literary Politics of Radical Arabic Humanism Timothy Brennan Part 2: Dissident Literatures 6. Everyday Dissent: Colonised Lifeworlds in Postwar Poetry Nick Lawrence 7. Facebook Poet: Poetic Dissent and Social Media in Contemporary India Anindya Raychaudhuri 8. Writing the Necropolitical: Notes Around the Idea of Mexican Anti-World Literature Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado 9. World Literature, Revolution, and Ecology Sharae Deckard 10. Negative Enchantment Mads Rosendahl Thomsen